{"id":26925,"date":"2016-03-19T13:46:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26925"},"modified":"2016-03-19T13:52:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T13:52:14","slug":"verdant-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/verdant-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdant equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a greyness about the sky today<br \/>\nA sleety tear or two<br \/>\nA great big bumble comes to drink<br \/>\nThe Rosemary,  a few<br \/>\nAccompany him their swirling wings<br \/>\nBuzzing through each day<br \/>\nTasting the yellow of April<br \/>\nWith their gentle sway<\/p>\n<p>Day and night are much the same<br \/>\nTis when the jasmine rests<br \/>\nTied up in a woody state<br \/>\nJack frost out there tests<br \/>\nThe true resolve of wanderers<br \/>\nThat come to the see the sun<br \/>\nFighting through the clouds<br \/>\nTo shine before the day is done<\/p>\n<p>Grape hyacinths and the crocus<br \/>\nHordes, test their colour schemes<br \/>\nThe early buds are moving slowly<br \/>\nAs are peoples dreams<br \/>\nA stillness operates across<br \/>\nThe fields into today<br \/>\nThe ROLL RIGHT stones  now watch<br \/>\nThe moles surface and do play<\/p>\n<p>Unwinding are the stories<br \/>\nOf faery folk who dance<br \/>\nPulsating and the drumming<br \/>\nEach throb of certain chance<br \/>\nThe trees with dormant ivy<br \/>\nClasp each other so<br \/>\nThe ritual of the moment<br \/>\nThat the Cotswold group bestow<\/p>\n<p>Come hither gentle friends<br \/>\nCome join our vital ring<br \/>\nThe circle and the portals<br \/>\nCertainly do bring<br \/>\nAll of us  together<br \/>\nThe warmth it does transpose<br \/>\nTo hold the hand of a lady friend<br \/>\nAnd appreciate she grows<\/p>\n<p>Ever close beside you<br \/>\nHer heart beats as does yours<br \/>\nTo look into her windswept eyes<br \/>\nAnd understand the cause<br \/>\nOf why you need her close to you<br \/>\nOf why she is your queen<br \/>\nOf how you will so miss her<br \/>\nThat she couldn&#8217;t have been<\/p>\n<p>With you this afternoon<br \/>\nX<\/p>\n<p> One to read in a few years and remember<br \/>\nWhy  I wrote this  and for who x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a greyness about the sky today A sleety tear or two A great big bumble comes to drink The Rosemary, a few Accompany him their swirling wings Buzzing through each day Tasting the yellow of April With their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/verdant-equinox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26928,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions\/26928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}